Category Archives: Webinar

5 December 2024, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill The grand finale of last year’s De Gruyter Brill webinar series for librarians addressed the emerging phenomenon of AI. Boon or world-buster? Enable or destroyer? The myths about AI persist and some are grounded in logic: AI needs carefulContinueContinue reading “Taming the dragon: librarians, creativity and AI”

19 September 2024, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Today’s academic library must take a proactive approach to modern study and research. It is not merely a repository of information, not merely a place for individual scholarship and not merely a building: though it is also all of theseContinueContinue reading “Space for study: the art and science of modern library creation”

20 June 2024, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Academic institutions worldwide are increasingly embracing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As centers of knowledge and information, academic libraries are ideally positioned to promote DEI. But what exactly does DEI entail, and why is it so crucialContinueContinue reading “Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: social justice and the modern university”

21 March 2024, 16.00-17.30 CET(3pm-4.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter The first Transformative Agreements [TA] were developed more than five years ago. Hundreds have since been signed throughout the world (though predominantly in the West). At its most basic, the TA asks libraries to pay for both the ‘read’ andContinueContinue reading “Assessing the Impact: Transformative Agreements in Scholarly Publishing”